He felt awfully good about his Phoenix suburb’s chances to land the additional corporate nerve center.

“When you’re ugly, you have to pay people to dance with you, but when you’re a desirable part of the country … it kind of sells itself,” he told KTAR News 92.3 FM’s Arizona’s Morning News on proposal day.

Cities all across the country showed interest almost immediately after Amazon announced in September it was looking to spread out.

The company has guaranteed investing $5 billion and hiring 50,000 employees. Chandler, Tempe and Phoenix also were expected to turn in plans.

“Certainly, if we’re going to do this, we’ve got be competitive with some of the other sides that are just throwing money at Amazon,” Giles said.

“We can’t compete with (some of the bigger cities) dollar for dollar. We have to rely on the fact that … it makes a lot of sense from a practical perspective. This is where people want to live.”

The bid listed four areas of the city where the company could locate: the Mesa Gateway Airport, Fiesta Mall, Riverview (near Loop 202 and Dobson Road) and downtown.

Giles said it would “probably be a solid year of negotiations and a stack of documents a mile high that details exactly what’s expected from the municipality and the region and what we get in return.”